If we choose to care, my understanding was
that stories can range from all levels, where as use cases (in the Cockburn methodology)
have defined levels, ala summary->user-goal. I find constraining user-goal
level use cases to elementary business process a useful aspect of use cases. Is
there such a guideline for user stories?

David Roberts wrote:> Where I'm as, we write use cases in a
low-precision format.

David,

Good, then you are closer to stories then. In
most large corporateenvironments, UCs now range from 5 - 25 pages, way
too long to be agile. (I have worked with a myriad of templates that are
in many cases evenlonger.)

David Roberts wrote:> I think the principles you've defined can be
kept in mind regardless of > whether you use use cases or user stories.

I agree.

As long as we use the same principles, in the end
it doesn't matter how wecall things, Use Cases, Stories or Backlog Items,
if they convey the sameinformation.